„I believe that Jews and Arabs can live together. It’s not an easy thing but I believe we can reach an agreement. I don’t want to pretend about talking to Arabs because I meet Arabs, here and on our farm at home. I would like to very careful not to pretend but I think I am one of the only ones here at the present time that will have the power and the strength to tell the citizens of Israel what they have to do and to make compromises and painful compromises, to look into their eyes and say that.“

— Margaret Atwood Canadian writer 1939Context: Instead of this, I tell
what I hope will pass as truth.
A blunt thing, not lovely.
The truth is seldom welcome,
especially at dinner,
though I am good at what I do.
My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.

— Charles Eames American designer, half of duo the Eames 1907 - 1978Charles Eames in a 1952 speech to a national assembly of the AIA; As cited in: [http://eamesdesigns.com/library-entry/ray-eames/ Ray Eames] at eamesdesigns.com, Accessed April 8, 2014; Charles Eames talks about